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Hampshire
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Primary Destinations
Andover • Basingstoke • Bournemouth • Fareham • Petersfield • Portsmouth • Ringwood • Southampton • Winchester
Other Important Destinations
Alton • Cowes • Eastleigh • Gosport • Havant • Lyndhurst • Newport • Romsey • Ryde • Southampton Airport • Waterlooville
Current Highway Authorities
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council • Dorset Council • Hampshire County Council • Isle of Wight • Portsmouth CC • Southampton CC
Borders
Berkshire • Dorset • Surrey • Sussex • Wiltshire
National Highways Roads
M3 • M27 • M271 • M275 • A3 • A3(M) • A27 • A31 • A34 • A36 • A303
This article is about the county.
For the Highway Authority, see Hampshire Council
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Hampshire is a traditional county on the South Coast. Although it is named after Southampton the county town is Winchester. Although the Isle of Wight is part of the county it has been administered separately since 1888.

Geography & Economy

Near the end of the A3 in Portsmouth

The county runs from the hills above the River Kennet south to the coast, with Southampton Water cutting the southern part of the county in two. Apart from the mainland section, Hampshire also includes England's largest island, the Isle of Wight, and two other islands with high population, Portsea and Hayling. The New Forest lies in the southwest, whilst the South Downs National Park also enters the county.

Hampshire is known for all three branches of the Armed Forces, with the naval base in Portsmouth, the Army barracks in Aldershot and connections between the RAF and Farnborough; the last-named was the location for the first heavier-than-air flight in the UK, by SF Cody in 1908. Southampton is also a major port and has some of the most complete town walls in the county. However, much of the county is rural. Tourism is important in the county's two national parks and the largest industry on the Isle of Wight. Bournemouth is an important seaside resort, as are a few towns on the Isle of Wight. Other tourist attractions include Highclere Castle, Osborne House, the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu and the historic ships moored at Portsmouth.

Roads

The A33

Most of Hampshire has a good network of roads, which radiate out from most of the major settlements. The South Downs are not an impediment to traffic but only a few roads cross the New Forest. The Isle of Wight's road network focuses on the island capital of Newport. The road along the south coast is prone to erosion and can still not be driven in its entirety.

Hampshire is the location of two of the more controversial road schemes. In the north part of the Newbury Bypass runs into the county, whilst in the south the M3 Winchester Bypass runs through the Twyford Down cutting. Hampshire is also the location of the first road in the county ever used by a a motor car powered by internal combustion: the car was driven from Micheldever station to Datchet in Buckinghamshire.

Most non-trunk roads in Hampshire are administered by Hampshire County Council or the Isle of Wight Council, although Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council and Portsmouth and Southampton City Councils administer their own areas. There is also a small area west of Ringwood that is administered by Dorset Council. National Highways maintain the main north-south A34 as well as the M3 and A3 which radiate from London and the A27/M27/A31 along the south coast. There are no Trunk Roads on the Isle of Wight.

Route From To Length
M3 Sunbury, Middlesex Southampton 61 miles View
M27 Cadnam Portsmouth 28 miles View
M30 Sunbury, Middlesex Popham, Hampshire 38.6 miles View
M270 Stonyford Wigley 0.5 miles View
M271 Upton, Hampshire Redbridge, Southampton 2.3 miles View
M272 Southampton Airport Southampton City Centre 3 miles View
M274 Port Solent Paulsgrove View
M275 Port Solent North End 2.5 miles View  
A3(M) Horndean Bedhampton 5.6 miles View
A36(M) Stonyford Wigley 0.5 miles View
A3 London Portsmouth (Broad Street) 78.0 miles View
A27 Whiteparish Pevensey 103 miles View
A30 Hounslow Land's End 284 miles View
A31 Guildford Bere Regis 86.8 miles View
A32 Alton Gosport 29.1 miles View
A33 Reading Redbridge, Southampton 52 miles View
A34 Winchester Salford 200 miles View
A35 Honiton Swaythling, Southampton 97 miles View
A36 Bath Totton 64.8 miles View
A259 Folkestone Havant 120 miles View
A272 Sutton Scotney Five Ashes 86.0 miles View
A287 Haslemere Hook 21.3 miles View
A288 Hilsea Portsmouth 6.4 miles View
A303 Popham Upottery 95 miles View
A323 Guildford Hartley Wintney 18.0 miles View
A325 Bagshot Longmoor Camp 23.1 miles View
A326 Ower Holbury 11.2 miles View
A326 Farnham Sheet 15.1 miles View
A327 Farnborough Reading 18.9 miles View
A331 Blackwater Tongham 7.9 miles View
A333 St Cross, Winchester Cosham 21 miles View
A334 Wickham Bitterne 9.1 miles View
A335 Southampton Chandler's Ford and Allbrook 8.6 miles View
A336 Totton Cadnam 4.2 miles View
A337 Cadnam Christchurch 21.7 miles View
A338 Bournemouth Bessels Leigh 90.4 miles View
A339 Newbury Alton 34.7 miles View
A340 Basingstoke Pangbourne 18.9 miles View
A341 Winchester Lopcombe Corner 15.8 miles View
A342 Andover Derry Hill 33.1 miles View
A343 Lopcombe Corner Newbury 26.7 miles View
A344 Weyhill Heytesbury 24.5 miles View
A346 Shipton Bellinger Collingbourne Ducis 6.7 miles View
A347 Ferndown Bournemouth 6.7 miles View
A354 Salisbury Easton, Portland 53.2 miles View
A397 Portsmouth Cosham 0.7 miles View
A2011 Cambridge Road Clarence Pier 0.7 miles View
A2012 Newnham Warnborough Green 1.3 miles View
A2030 Bedhampton Portsmouth 7.5 miles View
A2046 Portsmouth Milton 1.7 miles View
A2047 Hilsea Fratton 2.7 miles View
A2071 View
A3010 Basingstoke (E) Basingstoke (W) 1.6 miles View
A3011 Farnborough North Camp 1.1 miles View
A3013 Farnborough Fleet 2.6 miles View
A3015 Ash Rushmoor Green, Aldershot 1.8 miles View
A3017 Hilsea Portsmouth 1.6 miles View
A3018 Twyford Avenue Mile End Road 0.4 miles View
A3019 Commercial Road Portsmouth Royal Dockyards 0.7 miles View
A3020 Cowes Shanklin 13.9 miles View
A3021 East Cowes near Wootton Common 3.0 miles View
A3022 Newport Ryde 7.2 miles View
A3023 Havant South Hayling 4.9 miles View
A3023 Ryde Sandown 6.1 miles View
A3024 Southampton Bursledon 6.2 miles View
A3025 Bursledon Southampton 3.8 miles View
A3035 Southampton Common Bitterne, Southampton 2.1 miles View
A3049 Poole Boscombe 8.6 miles View
A3049 Paulsgrove Hilsea 1.0 mile View
A3051 Botley Park Gate 3.7 miles View
A3052 Salisbury Cholderton 9.3 miles View
A3054 Totland Ryde 19.3 miles View
A3055 Totland Ryde 31.1 miles View
A3056 Blackwater Lake 6.7 miles View
A3056 Blackwater Shanklin 7.3 miles View
A3057 Southampton Andover 25.2 miles View
A3060 Redhill Iford 3.5 miles View
A3062 Newnham Warnborough Green 1.3 miles View
A3067 Millbrook Swaythling 4.3 miles View
A3068 Christchurch Lymington 10.5 miles View
A3069 Lymington Lyndhurst 8.3 miles View
A3090 Hockley, Winchester Ower 14.3 miles View
A3091 Andover Road High Street 0.2 miles View
A3092 The Broadway City Road / Jewry Street / Hyde Street 0.5 miles View
A3093 Harewood Forest Andover 2.0 miles View   
B2070 Liphook Weston 10.2 miles View
B2131 Ramsnest Common Liphook 9.1 miles View
B2146 Petersfield Bosham 15.7 miles View
B2147 Emsworth Racton 3.2 miles View
B2148 Red Hill Emsworth 2.9 miles View
B2149 Langstone Causeway, Horndean 6.5 miles View
B2150 Droxford Bedhampton 10.8 miles View
B2151 Clarence Parade, Southsea Bradford Junction, Fratton 1.0 mile View
B2152 Kingston Road Holbrook Road 0.3 miles View
B2153 Victoria Road North Commercial Road 1.2 miles View
B2154 Portsea Eastney 2.6 miles View
B2155 South Parade Albert Road 0.6 miles View
B2177 Bedhampton Fisher's Pond 20.4 miles View
B2199 Petersfield Sheet 1.2 miles View
B3002 Hindhead Bordon Camp 7.4 miles View
B3003 Bordon Bordon Camp 0.6 miles View
B3004 Liphook Alton 11.7 miles View
B3005 Liss Rake Common 1.7 miles View
B3006 Hill Brow Chawton 9.4 miles View
B3007 Aldershot Farnham 2.8 miles View
B3008 High Street Farnborough Road 1.5 miles View
B3010 Fleet Road, Fleet Aldershot Road, Pondtail 0.9 miles View
B3010 Aldershot Crondall 4.8 miles View
B3011 Hartley Wintney Heckfield Heath 3.9 miles View
B3012 Phoenix Green Odiham 3.2 miles View
B3013 Warren Corner, Ewshot Yateley Common 6.8 miles View
B3014 Farnborough Cove 2.5 miles View
B3033 Newtown Hedge End 3.4 miles View
B3033 Wickham Cosham 6.9 miles View
B3034 Portsmouth & Southsea station St George's Road 0.5 miles View
B3035 Corhampton West End, Southampton 12.2 miles View
B3036 Hedge End Interchange Hedge End 1.4 miles View
B3036 Botley Fisher's Pond 5.3 miles View
B3037 Lower Upham Eastleigh 4.6 miles View
B3038 Itchen Bridge Northam Road 0.7 miles View
B3039 Itchen Bridge Queen's Park, Southampton 0.33 miles View
B3040 Pitt Roundabout North Walls 2.0 miles View
B3040 Bernard Street Canute Road 0.1 miles View
B3040 Southampton Common Bitterne Station 2.1 miles View
B3041 Romsey Road, Winchester Andover Road, Winchester 1.4 miles View
B3041 Bernard Street Town Quay 0.2 miles View
B3042 Southampton Andover 22.5 miles View
B3043 Chandler's Ford Hursley 3.1 miles View
B3044 St Paul's Hill City Road 0.24 miles View
B3044 Hyde Street Bridge Street 0.6 miles View
B3045 Andover Road Worthy Road 0.21 miles View
B3045 St Paul's Hill Andover Road 0.2 miles View
B3046 Basingstoke New Cheriton 17.7 miles View
B3047 Bishops Sutton bypass North Walls, Winchester 10.8 miles View
B3048 Hurstbourne Tarrant Wherwell 11.1 miles View
B3049 Stockbridge Winchester 8.6 miles View
B3049 Micheldever Station Andover 9.7 miles View
B3050 Andover Town railway station Andover Junction railway station 0.5 miles View
B3051 Overton Heath End 10.8 miles View
B3052 Church Street Worting Road 0.3 miles View
B3053 Holbury Calshot 3.1 miles View
B3054 Dibden Purlieu Buckland 10.1 miles View
B3055 Hatchet Gate Hinton 13.9 miles View
B3056 Lyndhurst Beaulieu 7.1 miles View
B3056 Lyndhurst Lymington 8.2 miles View
B3057 Brooklands Lyndhurst 0.4 miles View
B3057 Otterbourne Hursley 2.4 miles View
B3057 Bassett Cross Winchester Road 0.6 miles View
B3057 St Cross Oliver's Battery 1.7 miles View
B3058 Holmsley Everton 8.8 miles View
B3059 Somerford Pokesdown 5.2 miles View
B3060 Iford Muscliff 3.2 miles View
B3061 Boscombe West Howe 5.0 miles View
B3062 Littledown Lansdowne 2.6 miles View
B3063 Wimborne Road Castle Lane West 1.8 miles View
B3064 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth Christchurch Road, Bournemouth 1.1 miles View
B3065 Bournemouth Square Old Christchurch Road 0.3 miles View
B3066 Bournemouth station Westbourne 1.8 miles View
B3067 Poole Road Poole Road 0.2 miles View
B3073 Christchurch Wimborne Minster 11.8 miles View
B3076 Totton By-Pass (W) Totton By-Pass (E) 0.5 miles View
B3077 Lyndhurst Road Southampton Road 0.2 miles View
B3078 Brook Pamphill, Wimborne Minster 26.6 miles View
B3079 Cadnam Landford 5.4 miles View
B3080 Bramshaw Telegraph Wick 5.5 miles View
B3081 Ashley Prestleigh 45.2 miles View
B3084 Romsey (N) Shipton Bellinger (S) 18.9 miles View
B3166 North Camp Ash Vale 0.58 miles View
B3208 Aldershot Farnham 2.1 miles View
B3272 Farnborough Green Eversley 6.9 miles View
B3320 Medina Road Newport Road 0.21 miles View
B3321 Osborne House York Avenue 0.9 miles View
B3322 Totland The Needles 1.9 miles View
B3323 Shorwell Newport 5.4 miles View
B3324 Carisbrooke Road St James's Street 0.33 miles View
B3325 Cowes (Marina) Northwood 2.1 miles View
B3325 Freshwater Lake 26.6 miles View
B3326 George Street East Hill Road 0.6 miles View
B3326 Blackwater Shanklin 7.3 miles View
B3327 Whiteley Bank Ventnor 3.6 miles View
B3328 North Road High Street 0.6 miles View
B3329 Avenue Road, Sandown Beachfield Road, Sandown 1.38 miles View
B3330 Ryde Rowborough Corner, near Brading 5.7 miles View
B3330 Bar End Interchange Winchester city centre 1.49 miles View
B3331 Kite Hill Ferry 0.4 miles View
B3331 Ryde St Helens 2.9 miles View
B3331 Eastgate Street Jewry Street 0.41 miles View
B3332 Oakfield Binstead 0.9 miles View
B3333 Gosport Lee-on-the-Solent 4.3 miles View
B3334 Titchfield Gosport 4.8 miles View
B3335 Allbrook Winchester 4.3 miles View
B3336 Upper Green Road Embankment Road 0.3 miles View
B3336 View
B3340 Nettlestone Nettlestone Point 0.7 miles View
B3341 Carisbrooke Castle St George's Way, Newport 1.4 miles View
B3342 Hedge End Horton Heath 1.9 miles View
B3347 Christchurch Ringwood 8.6 miles View
B3349 Wokingham Alton 27.5 miles View
B3354 Botley Colden Common 7.1 miles View
B3379 North Waltham Stockbridge 14.5 miles View
B3380 Maybush Wimpson 0.3 miles View
B3385 Fareham Lee-on-the-Solent 3.3 miles View
B3386 Twyford Shawford 1.0 mile View
B3394 High Street Northern Road 0.1 miles View
B3395 Sandown St Helens 7.0 miles View
B3396 High Street Clay Hill 1.0 mile View
B3397 Old Netley Hamble-le-Rice 2.5 miles View
B3398 Greatbridge Road Romsey bypass 0.8 miles View
B3399 Chale Freshwater Bay 13.1 miles View
B3400 Basingstoke Andover 16.3 miles View
B3401 Newport Yarmouth 11.3 miles View
B3402 Churchill Way West Western Avenue 1.5 miles View
B3403 Lynchford Road Farnborough Road 0.8 miles View
B3404 Bridge Street, Winchester Percy Hobbs Roundabout, Morn Hill 2.1 miles View
B3406 Bar End Road Winchester By-Pass 0.6 miles View
B3420 Goodworth Clatford Winchester 11.6 miles View
B4640 Burghclere Newtown 2.1 miles View     
T6 London Portsmouth View
T7 SW of Basingstoke Southampton View
T8 London Penzance View
T13 Winchester Preston View
T37 Folkestone Honiton View
T38 Basingstoke Newbury View
T39 West of Southampton Bath View

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Roman Road
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National Cycle Network
Cycle Route
Eurovelo Cycle Route

Turnpikes

Main Article: Hampshire Turnpikes

Junctions

Main Article: Junctions in Hampshire


Bridges, Tunnels, and other Crossings

Main Article: Crossings in Hampshire



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